[Qt-creator] Package All Dependencies option for Release Mode

[Charles N Burns]

Though not as convenient as integration, if you compile Qt static yourself,
this can probably automated by adding a custom build step (projects -> Build
Settings -> Build Step) which runs a batch file that does the qmake, make,
and strip. Might have to echo "CONFIG += staticlib" to the pro file as well.

I say "probably" because I haven't done this yet.

The same idea could be used to copy the appropriate DLL files, though for
both the step would likely have to be added to each and every project.

In the long-run, I think it would be great to have a wizard-like compile &
package process which would ask the user whether to package the program as
an "install.exe"/"install.dmg" of some kind, a .MSI (for the Windows build),
a zip/tarball with the necessary libraries included, or a statically-linked,
optionally stripped single executable file.
Unfortunately, making this work appropriately for every platform might be a
big project.

--Charles Burns


On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Yonnys Pablo Martin Olivera <ypmartin at uci.cu
> wrote:

> Or the option for build the project with static link to library and without
> dependency of external (QtCore4.dll | libqtcore4.so)
>
> Ing. Yonnys Pablo Martín Olivera
> Universidad de las Ciencias Informáticas
> http://primavera.uci.cu/proyectos/qmasc
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: qt-creator-bounces at trolltech.com on behalf of Michael Pearce
> Sent: Tue 03.02.2009 11:19
> To: Qt-creator at trolltech.com
> Subject: [Qt-creator] Package All Dependencies option for Release Mode
>
>
> Hi,
>
> It would be really useful if, when building a Qt Creator project in release
> mode, you had the option to package up all of the dependencies into a single
> directory with the executable so that you didn't have to go copying
> QtCore4.dll, etc., find the correct version it's linking to, etc., etc.
>
> Or does such a thing exist already?
>
> -Michael
>
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